HEAD OFFICE CLOSURE
Due to the current course of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Building Communities Trust and Invest Local head office in Cardiff Bay will be closed until further notice.
While our office will close, staff will remain working from home and will still be available. We will continue to conduct as much of our work as we can remotely. Please view our staff profiles to view our mobile telephone numbers and email addresses. Telephone calls to our main office landline will be diverted to a dedicated mobile number and emails sent to info@bct.wales will be read and responded to where needed. Our head office will close at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday 17 March.
As Welsh Government’s consultation into the future spending purposes for the Dormant Assets Scheme in Wales comes to a close BCT’s Policy Officer, Eleri, outlines why we’re calling for the funding to be used to support community action.
Georgina Edwards, Policy and Research Manager at the Plunkett Foundation reflects on our recent panel event focused on Community Assets.
MaesNi Environmental group focus: Creating spaces for nature and community wellbeing.
Building Communities Trust’s Policy Officer, Matthew Brindley, describes why supporting communities to develop their strengths and assets should be a top priority for Government and decision makers in 2022.
Invest Local groups made sure that this would be a summer to put smiles on people’s faces after a difficult year and a half for their communities.
Vin Murtagh from grassroots community action group Together for Colwyn Bay talks about campaigning from the ground up with communities to make good things happen.
Building Communities Trust’s Policy Officer, Matthew Brindley looks back at the election campaign for Strong Welsh Communities and outlines how the new Welsh Government and Senedd can help develop the strengths and assets of local people and community-based organisations.